SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Lost in the hubbub surrounding California’s new $20-per-hour minimum wage for fast food workers is how that raise could impact public schools, forcing districts to compete with the likes of McDonald’s and Wendy’s for cafeteria workers amid a state budget crunch. The minimum wage law that took effect Monday guarantees at … Read more
LIVERMORE, Calif. (AP) — Most fast food workers in California will be paid at least $20 an hour beginning Monday when a new law is scheduled to kick in giving more financial security to an historically low-paying profession while threatening to raise prices in a state already known for its high cost of living. Democrats … Read more
NEW DELHI — Thousands of farmers crowding buses and trains traveled to the Indian capital on Thursday to press their demand for new legislation to guarantee minimum profitable crop prices, after weeks of being blocked from the city. They avoided using their tractors after authorities barricaded highways into New Delhi with cement blocks and barbed … Read more
‘Every single restaurant will close overnight’: Celebrity chef blasts California politician’s $50 minimum wage proposal, calls state ‘the worst run’ in the country. Do you agree? Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., is championing a proposal to raise the federal minimum wage to $50 per hour as part of her bid for the U.S. Senate. Given the … Read more
‘Embarrassing’: This Brooklyn college grad has 2 degrees, speaks 3 languages — but can’t even land a minimum wage retail job going store to store. Is the US labor market really that strong? It’s safe to say most young people don’t own a printer these days. But recent college graduates may find they need hard … Read more
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BleepingComputer spotted a release from LastPass confirming the change that acknowledges 12 characters was already the default setting, but preexisting users previously had the option to set a shorter password. LastPass removed this option last April, requiring new customers and anyone resetting their master password to hit the 12-character requirement. But if your account had … Read more
Mexico’s president says its minimum wage will rise by 20% in 2024, to the equivalent of about $14.25 per day ByThe Associated Press December 1, 2023, 10:20 AM FILE – Construction workers sit on a beam hanging from a crane at a construction site of a residential high rise building, in Mexico City, June 17, … Read more
Sandy Hook families who won nearly $1.5 billion in legal judgments against conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for calling the 2012 Connecticut school shooting a hoax have offered to settle that debt for only pennies on the dollar — at least $85 million over 10 years. The offer was made in Jones’ personal bankruptcy case in … Read more
In a blow to Uber, DoorDash and Grubhub, a New York judge on Thursday ruled to allow the implementation of the minimum pay rate of $18 per hour for New York City’s food delivery workers. The delivery apps sued the city in July, when the city’s 65,000 delivery workers would have begun seeing hourly payments, … Read more
A labor union representing greater than 200,000 railway employees in Germany says it’s cancelling plans for a two-day strike after employers met one in every of its key calls for BERLIN — A labor union representing greater than 200,000 railway employees in Germany mentioned Saturday that it was cancelling plans for a two-day strike after … Read more